Notoclinops

Notoclinops is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae from New Zealand.

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GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassTeleostei
OrderPerciformes
FamilyTripterygiidae

Habitatmarine

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Specimen records: 1
Family: Tripterygiidae
Collections: CAS
Recorded in: New Zealand

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Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Tripterygiidae
Image: Notoclinops yaldwyni (Yaldwyns triplefin).jpg

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Commons category: Notoclinops
taxon name: Notoclinops
taxon rank: genus
topic's main category: Category:Notoclinops

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Notoclinops is a genus of triplefins in the family Tripterygiidae from New Zealand.

==Etymology== The generic name Notoclinops refers to the superficial resemblance of the species in Notoclinops to the distantly related genus Notoclinus the two sharing a head lacking in scales, a broken lateral line and four spines in first dorsal fin.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Notoclinops” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.